President Barack Obama spilled a lot of ink on tax reform in the budget he sent to Capitol Hill Wednesday, but the lawmakers charged with crafting an overhaul said they aren’t paying much attention.

Members of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees are already deep into discussions about ways to overhaul the Tax Code.

They don’t see a lot of substantive overlap between their work and the president’s proposal and say they aren’t going to let the new ideas from the White House slow them down.

“He’s far too late coming forth with his budget proposal,” said Ways and Means Committee member Charles Boustany (R-La.). “We’re going to go through the process we’ve laid out on tax reform. Chairman [Dave] Camp has laid out a plan, and we’re going to keep going.”

The Louisiana Republican said most of the tax proposals in the White House budget were far outside the conversations going on in the bipartisan working groups in Ways and Means.

Massachusetts Rep. Richard Neal, the top Democrat on the select revenue subcommittee, said he simply sees Obama’s budget as broad advice rather than a specific plan.

Many of Obama’s tax provisions that might appeal to the GOP, like cutting loopholes and lowering the corporate tax rate, were contingent on Congress first raising $583 billion in new taxes on top earners — a nonstarter for Republicans.

The rich are also on the hook for other tax hikes in the budget that would pay for various programs, including an education initiative.

That clear conflict with the GOP all but ensures that the proposals only detract from the discussions in the Senate, according to Sen. Orrin Hatch, the top Republican on the Finance Committee.

Hatch said he and Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus met Wednesday and will continue talks as planned.

“We’re moving steadily; it is a very complex area,” Hatch said. The White House budget “doesn’t help because there is no way his budget is realistic. … You can’t help but conclude that it is something that just won’t work.”

Some Republicans said they were encouraged that there was so much attention to tax reform in the budget. “Anytime the president says something about tax reform in his budget, it is a good step,” Camp said.

The administration is ultimately putting aside almost $95 billion to pay for a revenue-neutral corporate tax reform.

But even that won’t get the reform effort very far. A senior Treasury official told reporters Wednesday that lowering the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 34 percent would cost $100 billion. Each additional percentage point would likely cost even more. Still, the official said the administration remains committed to lowering corporate tax rates from 35 percent to 28 percent — although such a target wasn’t specified in the proposal.